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First yes I am seeing a vet. Our normal vet is stumped so we have an appt with an exotics vet who will do a CT scan or something more indepth. Second, it is 100% a boy. Not pregnant. He is eating and acting normal! Occasionally has soft poop. I only call it bloat because idk what else to call...

I’m glad the surgery went well. The advice for reducing calcium intake is to filter drinking water and feed grain free pellets and also keep pellets limited to one tablespoon per pig per day. A wetter diet (plenty of lettuce and cucumber) to provide additional fluid to keep urination strong...

Don't have piggies anymore, but the last 10-15 years I had them I didn't feed any pellets, and I had some real healthy long-livers in that time so I assume they were getting the correct nutrients from hay, grass, weeds aka wild herbs, veg and fruit. At that time my piggies were often in the...

Thanks so much for all of these tips xx I measured the cage and it's just within the measurements that you mentioned, he's out all day and only in it to sleep but often during the day he goes back inside for a nap on his hamac. I'll definitely look at the grids , thanks . I'd like him to have...

Welcome to the forum and I’m sorry to hear of their issues. It’s good you filter their water, do they eat pellets? Pellets and water contribute most calcium to the diet so ensuring filtered water and that pellets are limited are the main steps to take. It is important to note that cutting...

The first important thing to note is that you cannot and should not go for a calcium free diet (it will actually be impossible to do so given there is some calcium in everything) but a diet too low in calcium is just as a bad as one which is too high. They still need some calcium to remain...

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Hi and welcome HUGS I am very sorry for your panic. Onion isn't one of the highly toxic foods but simply one that should not be part of a regular diet as the toxins will build up in the liver with repeated feeding. A one-off won't do any lasting harm. You will find that piggies are very good...

That’s far too many pellets. They should only have one tablespoon per pig per day (it amounts to around 6-10 grams per day only). Pellets are not the important part of their diet (they don’t technically have to have any pellets at all), it’s hay which is the essential part and your daily weight...

He’s a bit obsessed with them! 😂 He gets about. Table spoon maybe a bit less every 24 hours. Maybe I’ll take it back to every other day instead of every day and add some dry forage to his hay.

:agr: It is just one tablespoon of pellets per pig per day. One cup of veg per pig per day. With hay being 80% of what they need to eat in a day, and always needs to be available in the cage at all times. Whether you feed pellets in the morning and veg in the evening or any combination or...

Hi There is always new research; nutrition is very much a minefield. Just about every food has been ruled out at some point or other. It is interesting but we have to wait and see how it works out in practice and what the longer term consensus is going to be. What seems to work best is to...

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I’m glad he is ok. Most calcium comes into the diet via pellets and drinking water. Ensuring pellets are grain free and kept limited and that water is filtered is the main thing. You can cut pellets out altogether or even just don’t give them as often - my piggies only get pellets three...

I’m sorry to hear this. It does sound very stressful. If you do decide to move for a while, then use soiled bedding when you set up the cage in a new environment. That way it will still smell like them and they find the transition much easier. In terms of the potential bladder stone, there...

I really like and agree with everything you just said there. I have a little story that happened to my wife and I last year that I think you'll like. We had Amazon prime so free shipping and to save even more ( yeah right ) we signed up for a 4 month subscription for Oxbow pellets. After all...

Thank you again. Yes she has cystease with 6 ml of Water am and pm . She just loves the taste of it. And I have been dampen there veg. They have low calcium veg because of my boars sterile IC. She also gets water syringed at 9 pm as well. I feed science selective nuggets. I have tried there...

BIG HUGS You are only just about at the start of where the loss is really starting to hit you and to sink in after the sheer shock and self-blaming phases are fading. It's still very early stages. Please give yourself time. Your grieving process is progressing perfectly normal for when the...

They don’t need any vitamin c supplements at all - no tablets, biscuits or drops in water. They only need unlimited hay, one cup of vegetables and one tablespoon of plain pellets per day. That provides them with all their nutrient needs. The only time vit c supplementation is useful is in...

Hi Some piggies have a sensitive gut microbiome that is easily overset and which can be very difficult to get right again. Do you have a healthy companion not on metacam (in your case, it is generally not a problem) or antibiotics (which can also affect the digestive bacteria)? In this case, I...